Ukraine returned eight more deported children from Kherson region and Donetsk region

Another 8 children, who were taken away by the Russian Federation, were returned to the territory controlled by Ukraine.

Mykola Kuleba, the head of the public organization Save Ukraine, announced this.

It is noted that children aged 7 to 17, who were in the Russian-occupied parts of Kherson region and Donetsk region, were brought to the free territory of Ukraine.

As Mykola Kuleba told, for one of the boys who managed to be returned — Serhii — this was already the second attempt to leave the occupation. And at the border, the occupiers threatened him with prison.

Another girl, Myroslava, was threatened by the Russians with a gun at the border so that she would go to the interrogation.

In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the Save Ukraine organization has returned 405 children to the free territory of Ukraine.

We will remind that as of December 2023, approximately 4,000 adopted children ended up in the temporarily occupied territory or were deported to the territory of the Russian Federation.

It was previously reported that the Parliament of Moldova will consider a resolution condemning the illegal deportation of Ukrainian children by Russia and the need for their return home as soon as possible.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a resolution calling on European politicians to make every effort to return Ukrainian children deported to Russia, as well as to help all children who are victims of this war.

The Vice-President of the European Parliament, Robert Zile, said that the Russification that took place during the Soviet era was not as terrible as the one carried out by the Russian and Belarusian regimes today, forcibly taking children from Ukrainian families and destroying their roots.